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PLAYMARKET INFORMATION Playmarket issues and manages performance licences and royalty payments, circulates clients’ plays in New Zealand and internationally, advises on and negotiates commissions, translation and collaboration agreements, and maintains an archive of playwrights’ work. Playmarket offers a raft of development resources such as clinics, readings, and events; and industry discourse, partnerships and networks. Our bookshop provides every published New Zealand play in print and has a comprehensive catalogue of unpublished plays to download or purchase. Playmarket also offers advice to all New Zealand playwrights, theatremakers and producers. FACTS AND FIGURES 1 July 2019 – 30 June 2020 Professional performance licenses issued: 33 Community performance licenses issued: 72 International licenses issued: 15 School/Tertiary performance licenses issued: 116
Playmarket Guidelines Series Caring for Your Audience by Lori Leigh | Editors: Salesi Le’ota and Murray Lynch | Design: Cansino & Co eBulletin Published monthly via email. News and opportunities for those interested in New Zealand plays | Editor: Salesi Le’ota
Paid script assessments: 7
edBulletin Published biannually via email. Resources and opportunities for teachers and educators Editor: Salesi Le’ota
PUBLISHING 2020
AWARDS, COMPETITIONS AND PROJECTS
NZ Play Series Purapurawhetū by Briar Grace-Smith | Series Editor: David O’Donnell | Design: Cansino & Co | Editing and Production: Whitireia Publishing
Playmarket Award Winner 2019: Sarah Delahunty
Scripts circulated: 5800 Scripts/drafts received: 442
The Pink Hammer by Michele Amas and Flagons and Foxtrots by Alison Quigan and Ross Gumbley | Series Editor: David O’Donnell | Design: Cansino & Co | Editing and Production: Whitireia Publishing Playmarket Annual Editor: Mark Amery | Design: Cansino & Co | Editorial assistants: Salesi Le’ota and Murray Lynch
Bruce Mason Award Winner 2019: Nancy Brunning Adam NZ Play Award Winner 2020: This Particular Room by Jess Sayer Runner Up: Blocked by Siobhan Rosenthal Best Play by a Māori Playwright: Second to God by Sarah Browne Best Play by a Pasifika Playwright: Scholars by Tanya Muagututi’a Best Play by a Woman Playwright: This Particular Room by Jess Sayer
